Several years ago, the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) spied a planet in the distance. It is located about 50 light-years away from Earth and is a contender for a potentially habitable world.

A decades-old cosmic mystery may finally be solved. Scientists now suspect that the strange X-ray glow from a distant white dwarf is the result of a planet being ripped apart and devoured by the dying ...

After tracking a puzzling X-ray signal from a dying star for decades, astronomers may have finally explained its source: The old star might have destroyed a nearby planet. Dating back to 1980, X ...